Today, we celebrated Alice’s birthday as a family because it was her actual birthday (when did we switch to having two day celebrations? It must be some plot of Charles’). Alice recieved yet another pile of presents, which made her cry because there were things she wanted that she did not get! Not every … single … whim … was satisfied! The horror, the horror …
Alice did eventually deign to accept her poor fortune and managed to bring herself to play with the center piece of her array of gifts, a metallic rose Nintendo DS. She also liked the big pile of cash she got from her grandmothers. We drove out to Best Buy in the afternoon so the kids could also purchase electronics with their Christmas / birthday stashes. Alice and Corwin found things to their liking, but not Charles. Alice, among other things, got a Hello Kitty case for her new DS and some game cases (-required- suggested by Mom).
After dinner we had yet another cake (making 3 for Charles in 2 days). Mom also got cupcakes for Alice’s class tomorrow, so that Alice can hit the magic 3 cake product mark too. Poor Corwin had to make do with only 2.